The Plantation Club Resort & Casino Baie Lazare

... car I had previously rented is waiting for us in the parking lot. Even better, Neal was able to arrange the rental of a local home for our last night in the Seychelles. As we say goodbye to Monkey Puzzle, we know that we still have one more day to explore the Seychelles and that we did with lunch at the ...

... The coral heads are some of the best I’ve seen on the trip, making for a fine snorkel.

Once back on the boat, we half-heartedly attempt to set a stern anchor so that we’d have our bow set into the waves which caused a substantial amount of roll our first night. Feeling we were setting it too close ...

... tips.

After lunch, we continue on, sailing to our night stop at Port Launay. We get the anchor in just to port of the cross marketing the reef on the western side of the bay and jump in for an evening snorkel. This time we snorkeled all the way to the beach, then back along the cliffs on the eastern side of the bay. The light was pretty low, but, we ...

... a small bonito caught again by Lisa. As we round the northern point of Mahe’, the wind begins to build to 30k (katabolic effect off the high mounts) coming almost due south right on our nose. We roll-up the job and reef the main as we motor sail directly into the wind to anchor in the designated area off Beau Vallon Beach.

It’ ...

... 8217; so he had the funds to buy our produce. Neal said we can trust Robert, so we decided to also trust Miles.

We took a short dingy ride to the shore for a brief walk around the port and a dingy trip around Ille St. Anne, a man-made island in the middle of the bay. Back to the boat to await Miles and prepare for our evening ritual. He returned a bit ...

... and a swim, though the current has some bite in it. After spending the afternoon in this idyllic setting, we sail back to Anse Lazio this time anchoring in front of the rock formation we scouted on our earlier walk ready for another fantastic sunset.

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Lunch: tuna Cajun cerviche with cucumber garnish
Dinner: Tandoori Lamb. Cecci salad

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... two most important questions we have at this time are: 1. Can we shove-off early enough to spend our first night at anchor and 2. What time can we get access to the boat or base refrigerator to store our fresh provisions. Neal of Sunsail stays true to that Seychellois form and tells us we can bring all our provisions whenever we’d like and ...

... cannot think outside of the box, are lazy and do not take or take any pride in their job or business. We walk to the internet café, where we spend a couple of hard working hours. Dr T works on South-Africa, me on Madagascar. I manage to book a very nice hotel for 2 nights in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar: centrally located, A/C and internet. I also send many mails to Nosy Be. That is the main diving island of Madagascar, completely in the north. Roads are almost ...

... couple of hundred meters down, if you miss by 10cm! There will be no driving in the dark and hopefully not in the rain, either. We stop at several beaches for a stroll. They are mostly deserted. Bella is watching us! Luckily we brought our own beer. Despite the small size of the island, we barely make it home before dark, after some shopping for diner. You can see home and Victoria. And our route of the day.

... many visitors know about it and it is a beautiful walk...you have to walk into the 'jungle' past a bunch of Creole homes which is very interesting to see. When you get to the last home, there is a little animal farm which looks abusive to animals * Praslin: " Valle de Mai". That's were the Coco de Mer grows, also look for black Parrots * Best Praslin Beach - Anse Lazio, NW * La Digue Island - bicycle ...